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Very proud of my (and Morten O. Ravn) great pre-doc Alice and thankful to Wendy Fung for her generosity!

Preparing a lecture on subjective expectations for the Econometric Society summer school in Dynamic Structural Econometrics, and I found a Wolpin paper from 1985 (!) on the use of expectation data to estimate choice models.

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills" By Orazio Attanasio, Aureo de Paula, & Alessandro Toppeta sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics UCL Economics UCL Policy Lab Yale Department of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies

This is a very nice paper by Giulia Brancaccio and Karam Kang!

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20635 The Rise of Online Dating and Heterogamous Marriages Yujung Hwang Johns Hopkins University, Aureo de Paula UCL Economics UCL, Fanzhu Yang Bates White ow.ly/IxIV50WV9Ze #CEPR_LE #EconTwitter

Econometrica Volume 93, Issue 5 (September 2025) is now online econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

No solo heredamos genes: también habilidades socioemocionales como la sociabilidad o la estabilidad emocional. El estudio revela que la infancia es clave y que las madres tienen un papel más influyente en esta transmisión Orazio Attanasio Aureo de Paula sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here is the ungated version of our paper on online dating, published as the IFS working paper! ifs.org.uk/publications/r…

I think many people will like re-listening to this old season 2 interview I did with Ariel Pakes, a structural IO economist at Harvard. Enjoy! causalinf.substack.com/p/rerun-ariel-…

NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: The rise of online dating and heterogamous marriages 📗 Read Yujung Hwang / 황유정, Fangzhu Yang and Aureo de Paula's new paper on how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education here: ifs.org.uk/publications/r…